Diary #6. Domestic violence

Domestic violence is a big problem, because it affects a whole family or even couple. The problem with this situation is that in many cases the victims do not report the aggressors for alleged "love" they feel for those people, similar cases are to be treated in the chosen diaries.

I lived half a year in Barranquilla, but I remember that before I had a great friend who I trusted, I stay with that image really leaving, a person in which I could have my problems. Returning to Bogota a year later I went to look but I met someone I did not recognize and that before he was my friend, obviously we stop talking. My reaction to this was sadness because he was one of the person in which more trusted.

I think these people stay with abusers for two reasons, first, if they leave he do not have to go because their families in some cases had warned them of the kind of man she would live but you're not they obeyed and they have no other to stay with the abuser because their families doesn’t accept they return to home. Second: the woman feels love for man but this will stick or abuse this remains only for the single thought that this "love". a way to avoid this is to make awareness campaigns both men and women that love is not violence, to make them think that if their partners beat them means not want that much less who value them as human beings.

Mainly offered me protection at all times is my mother, as it is one that most wants me anytime I need it will be ready to help. I remember that at various times to help my brother when he teased at school I think those were the moments when someone needs my protection.

In conclusion domestic violence is a problem that has a solution, this would raise awareness among families of high and low economic resources so that within families and loving couples there gender balance (women and men ) and races so that there is a full equality.